These are Purple Dragon:
(http://www.geocities.com/sanders_carr/chilli_one.jpg)
Start off purple turn green and then red. Fairly hot small chillie, 3 bags of chillies from each plant so prolific.
These are Halapeno, ripening from green to red but no real differance in heat. They are fairly mild in my book.
(http://www.geocities.com/sanders_carr/chilli_two.jpg)
Jerry
Fabulous! What are you going to do with them all??
We eat a lot of chillies. We have this recipie once a week on average I expect.
Heat some good olive oil in a pan and add 4 to 6 cloves of crushed garlic and 4 or 6 de-seeded chopped chillies.
Gently simmer for 10 mins to infuse the oil, add some home grown oven dried tomatoes and some fresh tomatoes if you have them. A tea spoonful of tomato chutney and simmer for anoth 10 mins stiring from time to time.
Meanwhile cook some spaghetti and drain. Pour the chillie/tomato mix over the lot and sprinkle with lots of fresh parmesan cheese. Eat pronto.
Adjust the chillies to taste. Very yummy and very healthy!
Jerry
Ohhhhhhhh, sounds great. I doubt I could do this using 6 of my chilies, way too hot. I have to look up if cayenne are hotter than jalapeno.
They look so perfect and pretty. Very nice picture, something for a puzzle hehehe?
A puzzle is a great idea, might just do that! The picture also makes quite a good wall paper!
Jerry
Ina - usually rated the same.
Jerry - any idea why lovely smooth Jalapenos get 'cracks' in them??
We only riped 1/3 of ours in the bags. Just hope they will continue, hanging in a south facing 'house. = Tim
Tim
Not sure, as this is the first year they have suffered. Does not effect eating/taste quality and these are frozen for future use so should not be a problem.
My thoughts are they suffered some moisture stress at a critical time, probably while we were at my parents farm in August running the place while my folks took a holiday. We left the home and garden in the care of a neighbour and he is not 100% gardening reliable!
Jerry
Just wondered - it annoys me to grow someting so perfect, only to have it blemished!
Yes - no affect on the eating quality. = Tim